David Slump

Koki (formerly known as Hitachi Power Tools) is a KKR Portfolio Company.

Leading the day-to-day operations and financial performance of all HARMAN's business in Global Markets (~$2B Revenue with double-digit profit) in China, Japan, Korea, Russia, India, South and Central America. In addition, leading HARMAN's software services business with ~6,000 software engineers and mid-teen EBITDA margins. Leading the overall Strategy and portfolio management for HARMAN together with CEO. David is a member of the Senior Leadership Committee (SLC).​

Led the day-to-day operations and financial performance of HARMAN’s Connected Services business (~$1B with mid-teen EBITDA), the software and services business focused on automotive, enterprise and digital transformation. Also a member of HARMAN's Senior Leadership Committee (SLC).

Responsible for HARMAN's procurement spend of ~$5B across 19 manufacturing plants including nearly $1B in external manufacturing partnership spend. Drove ~$500M margin expansion through Procurement, Supply Chain and Manufacturing & Quality across HARMAN businesses.

Launched and grew a new Car Audio and Infotainment Services business within HARMAN that includes automotive cloud applications to vehicle specific upgrade paths for consumers. Acquired Symphony Teleca and Redbend and led the integration to build HARMAN Connected Services, a new Division of HARMAN. Continued to drive HARMAN's global procurement and Lean Six Sigma initiatives resulting in over $300M in savings.

Driving corporate and operational strategy, mergers & acquisitions and the global procurement team responsible for the entire ~$2.5B spend across HARMAN.

The Consumer Audio business is the foundation of the companies brands and is a B-to-C consumer electronics business that required a massive turnaround to become profitable. This was achieved through hiring new critical leaders, moving the Engineering footprint from Northridge, California to Shenzhen, China resulting in >80% of new products completed on time with significantly shorter cycle-times.

Integrated the acquisitions of Cellnet Data Systems, Hunt Technologies and StatSignal into Cellnet+Hunt, a leading distribution automation and advanced metering communication solutions provider for utilities in North America.

Directed the development and execution of growth programs to accelerate organic growth and expand margins for a $19 billion supplier of power generation and energy delivery technologies. Led a global team of product marketing, communications, regional market development and energy consulting.

Directed the development of a global strategy to re-focus ABB on Automation & Power Technologies. Major emphasis was on portfolio management, growth agenda and competitive positioning resulting in the implementation focusing Automation into 3 core divisions with several years of profitable growth.

Directed $1.2 billion business serving electric, gas and water utilities in the United States with automation and power products & services.

Directed global product marketing and regional sales for $1.1 billion medium voltage technologies business.

Created a new marketing group responsible for market analysis, planning and implementation of key growth initiatives.

Reactive Power Planning, Bulk Power Planning Corporate Strategic Planning